The National People’s Congress (NPC) of the PRC is frequently mischaracterized in Western discourse as a mere "rubber stamp." In reality, under the PRC’s constitutional framework, the NPC is the supreme organ of state power, wielding absolute binding force and state-enforced compliance over the entire country. A meticulous examination of historical NPC Standing Committee Gazettes exposes how the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) systematically embeds itself within this supreme body to orchestrate a legal warfare machinery.
According to the 1992 NPC Gazette (No. 3), during the 5th Session of the 7th NPC—with Deng Xiaoping and Xi Zhongxun sitting on the presidium—a critical statutory decision was enacted regarding the allocation of seats for the 8th NPC. It mandated that the PLA was allotted 267 formal military delegates. Crucially, the decree also revealed a cross-jurisdictional subversion: the 13 fabricated "Taiwan Province delegates" were legally ordered to be elected from among "Taiwanese compatriots" residing within mainland provinces and within the People's Liberation Army itself.
Official gazettes demonstrate that active-duty PLA personnel do not merely elect members of the official PLA delegation; they actively participate in electing and filling slots for regional civilian delegations—including Xinjiang, Hubei, Jiangsu, and most egregiously, the "Taiwan Province Delegation."
中共国全国人大常委会公报显示第十四届全国人大代表中的新疆代表团成员共有60人,由包括至少32名中共枪杆子在内的新疆人大代表选出,也就是说这60名来自新疆的人担任全国人大代表经过中共中央军委指挥的PLA和武警军人的投票同意。 https://t.co/wUkj498ZUy pic.twitter.com/ldMriAgSeW
— CPA Jim (@CPAJim2021) June 28, 2026
习近平担任主席的中共中央军委指挥的33名现役军人江苏省人大代表及中共中央军委指挥的中共现役军人担任的江苏省各市级人大代表参与选出的江苏省人大代表,和其他江苏省人大代表,2023年1月选出了习近平任总书记的中共中央提名的候选人中共中央军委主席习近平为全国人大代表https://t.co/4anXZJpCTy pic.twitter.com/UAlZC15WaT
— CPA Jim (@CPAJim2021) July 6, 2026
例如与习近平关系密切的肖捷是湖北省代表团的全国人大代表,由第14届湖北省人大选举产生。而组成第14届湖北省人大的湖北省人大代表中包括中国人民解放军联勤保障部队参谋长李星河等28名枪杆子代表大会选出的省人大代表。 https://t.co/s0vTcL4VOH https://t.co/gIlPGZ9HBU https://t.co/BJ8XHp7K4D pic.twitter.com/Cwl45WhyNi
— CPA Jim (@CPAJim2021) June 26, 2026
This systemic cross-contamination carries profound international law implications:
The Subversion of the San Francisco Peace Treaty: The 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty—the bedrock of the post-WWII Pacific settlement registered with the United Nations—intentionally left Taiwan's status undetermined. By using its domestic supreme legislature to fabricate a "Taiwan Province Delegation," Beijing acts in direct defiance of the treaty.
A Weaponized Legal Fiction: The PRC has never exercised a single day of effective control over Taiwan. The 13 "Taiwanese delegates" in the NPC possess zero democratic mandate from the 23 million people living in Taiwan. Instead, they are political proxies selected in part by the very military force (the PLA) threatening to invade the island.
This is not a separation of military and civil governance, but a total militarization of the supreme statutory authority. When the 8th NPC was seated in 1993, its members included PLA Generals such as Chi Haotian and Qin Jiwei—men whose military records include directly fighting against UN forces in the Korean War in violation of UN Resolution 498. By embedding these military actors alongside a fraudulent Taiwan delegation under a binding statutory mandate, Beijing constructed a legal apparatus designed to authorize territorial encroachment.
During the 1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis (March 8–25), this legislative-military nexus manifested on the ground. As the military fired missiles, Xi Jinping, then a regional party-military official in Fujian, accepted a military award on behalf of Fuzhou for outstanding frontline wartime logistics mobilization. Xi’s actions on the frontline were the direct execution of a unified state apparatus backed by the absolute statutory force of the NPC.
习近平与台海危机期间的中共军演是否有关呢?军演期间为1996年3月8日至3月25日。1996年3月中国人民解放军福建省军区授予福州市在演习中支前有功奖牌,习近平作为代表接受奖牌。https://t.co/Fpo3yPW2Eshttps://t.co/iOomRVcPHg pic.twitter.com/IRPhTyLdFr
— CPA Jim (@CPAJim2021) June 21, 2026
Western observers must stop treating the NPC as a political theater. It is a highly dangerous, binding legal mechanism through which an unpunished aggressor state codifies its military ambitions, overrides international treaties, and attempts to normalize the annexation of a sovereign territory through domestic statutory decrees.
Primary Sources:
Gazette of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the PRC, 1992, No. 3.
中共国全国人大常委会公报1995年第3号显示邓小平是第八届全国人大第三次会议主席团成员。
— CPA Jim (@CPAJim2021) June 2, 2026
中共国全国人大常委会公报1992年第3号显示邓小平是第第七届全国人大第五次会议主席团成员,8964镇压后,邓小平仍然是中共国第七届全国人大主席团成员。https://t.co/lC33k2PyTP https://t.co/gRliKnEJHL pic.twitter.com/JPQnBaRzkB
Gazette of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the PRC, 1993, No. 1.
一个容易让人忽略的事实是:虽然在8964天安门屠城后,邓小平辞去了中央军委主席等职务,但是根据中共国全国人大常委会公报1993年第1号及1997年邓小平死亡的情况,从1993年到1997年死亡,邓小平一直是第八届全国人大代表中共枪杆子解放军代表团成员,从未辞去全国人大代表职务。https://t.co/eS30n44eY5 pic.twitter.com/zJWvNDoPlH
— CPA Jim (@CPAJim2021) June 2, 2026








